August 2009 Archives

The Cobham Junior Netball club is looking for new members, from school years six to 10 to join for the upcoming season.

The club trains at Heathside school, in Brooklands Lane, Weybridge on Sunday mornings from 10am to 11.30am.

The first training session starts on Sunday, September 21 and prospective members are encouraged to turn up where they will be given a membership pack and further details.

For further information email Laura Wilson at laurawilson1980@hotmail.com

In preparation for the new school year and as a result of the recession, Brooklands College has created a new course which offers free classes to anyone who has been unemployed for over six months.

Called Response to Redundancy, the college, which has campus' in Heath Road, Weybridge and Church Road, Ashford, has been working with organisations, inluding Job Centre Plus to create an initiative that can offer a new range of skills to people.

The college is offering courses in areas, including engineering, social care, bookkeeping and accounting and computing.

Most of the courses start in September and will run through the autumn.

Former 1930s racing driver Sammy Davis has come back to Brooklands in the form of a new exhibition.

Containing memorabilia from the journalist and racing driver's life, the exhibit is being held in the Coachmakers' Gallery, at the museum, in Brooklands Road, Weybridge.

Sammy Davis had been a successful driver at Brooklands during the late 1920s and early 1930s and he won four successive victories in the Le Mans 24 hour race.

For happy couple Ben and Kate Taylor their wedding day was already going to be a special, but it was given an added supersonic feel with the presence of Concorde.

The couple, who were married in Windlesham on Saturday, July 25, chose to hold their reception at Brooklands museum in Brooklands Road, Weybridge.

Having got engaged a year before on the airliner, they invited their 110 guests to have afternoon tea under the retired Concorde.

A spokesman for the museum, said: "The location for the reception using the many unusual facilities at Brooklands museum added dramatically to an entertaining and special day for the newly married couple and their guests."

Elmbridge council will be doing a Sir Alan Sugar and saying you're hired to two students for its apprentice scheme, starting in November.

The programme will see two business studies students spending a year in the community support services and housing division.

Applicants should be aged between 16 and 19 and live in the borough.

They will be paid £100 a week while they continue to study a national vocational qualification in Business studies at Brooklands college, in Heath Road, Weybridge.

Starting from Monday (17) commuters will be able to park at Esher and Weybridge train stations without the use of loose change.

Using mobile phone technology, customers will be able to pay for parking by phoning or sending a text message, as part of a year trial put on by Elmbridge council.

Traffic wardens will be linked to the web, and will be sent information on which cars have paid to park, meaning there will be no need for a paper ticket.

A Weybridge stylist is heading for the Oscars of the hairdressing world as he is nominated in the 2009 British Hairdressing Awards.

Leo Bancroft, whose salon is in Oatlands Drive will be up against five other hairdressers as he competes for the Southern Hairdresser of the Year Award at the ceremony which celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary this year.

To be nominated for this award, Leo, who has featured in a TRESemme advert, had to submit four images of his hairstyles that adhered to the Hairdressers Journal International.

A new nursery and pre school, Churchfield House is opening in Churchfield Road on Wednesday August 26.

Running from 11am to 3pm, the launch event is open to families and will host activities and games including a puppeteer, balloon modelling and a visit from the reptile zoo.

Mayor of Elmbridge Councillor James Vickers will be cutting the ribbon at 12.30pm.

For one Weybridge resident, August is going to be a busy month as 20 year old Lauren Ellis is going to be competing in not one but two beauty pageant finals.

Lauren, of Broom Way, is taking part in the annual competitions, Miss Earth UK on the weekend of Saturday, August 22 and then Miss Intercontinental four days later on Wednesday August 26.

A former student at St Georges College, in Weybridge Road, Addlestone, these competitions will only be the third time she has competed in an event of this sort.

For years it was known as the most powerful car in the world, now the Mercedes 37/95 has gone on display at Brooklands museum.

Currently at the museum in Wellington Way, Weybridge, the car which was built in 1912, will be available for visitors to see until the end of August.

During its most successful competitive years, between 1910 and 1914, the car was well known in the Elgin Trophy grand prix and the Vanderbilt Cup, winning a number of races.

The car, which has a 90 horsepower, has been loaned to the museum by Mercedes who will replace it with another car at the end of the month.

For more information visit www.brooklandsmuseum.com